"Current: Cowon D2 (I have given all the phones listening time on the Cowon to rule out any impact/bias the Sansas/HTA may have had) "

Great comparison and writeup!
Got news for you, the D2 is adding more bias to testing than the Sansa Clip will. This is due to the D2 not having a flat response curve, where the Clip is nearly dead flat.
The D2 has a very well thought out modified response curve that boosts low and high frequencies. Cowon got superior sound by doing this, because it corrects for the normal deficiencies in human hearing.
Not looking to raise the flames here, just pointing out some technical differences.

Got news for you, the D2 is adding more bias to testing than the Sansa Clip will. This is due to the D2 not having a flat response curve, where the Clip is nearly dead flat.
The D2 has a very well thought out modified response curve that boosts low and high frequencies. Cowon got superior sound by doing this, because it corrects for the normal deficiencies in human hearing.
Not looking to raise the flames here, just pointing out some technical differences.

Yes, I notice a sound difference between the Clip and the D2 and still use both for testing. Luckily, crap headphones still sound like crap on both, so I can't make a mistake there. Similarly, good headphones sound good on either. I'm still amazed by how great the clip sounds for the money.

Thanks for the review...but for the Mogami Cable can you give me the exacte reference off the cable and the 3,5 mini jack please.
I have just found some days ago koss ksc 75 at a fair for 5 euro but need new cable...so help me it will be my first try.....

The recable was performed by head-fier pdupiano. I don't know which Mogami cable he used, but perhaps he will remember if you ask. The plug is a Switchcraft Gold/Black Plug. There is an excellent video tutorial of recabling KSC75's somewhere on the forums here. If you're unable to find it I probably have a bookmark somewhere...

Whoa, at first I thought those Soundmagics were the Sony mdr-710 from the pic

thanks for the writeup!

You're welcome, hope it was useful.

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Originally Posted by cathare34

Thanks for the review...but for the Mogami Cable can you give me the exacte reference off the cable and the 3,5 mini jack please.
I have just found some days ago koss ksc 75 at a fair for 5 euro but need new cable...so help me it will be my first try.....

I asked Paul and the cable is Mogami minature starquad from markertek. All credit to him for the excellent recabling job.